Strange and unusual

A man, dressed as the Muppet character Elmo, is arrested in New York’s Times Square. The arrest took place after a loud verbal exchange between the man and tourists.

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Bubble artist Melody Yang looks through bubbles she created on a table during a demonstration in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Sajal Biswas, a snake charmer puts the head of a snake into his mouth as he performs at a roadside to earn his livelihood on the outskirts of Agartala, India.

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Tourists pose with an upside-down house in Tamparuli, Borneo island, Malaysia. Built for tourist attraction, the traditional Sabah village house was built with everyday households items like computer, refrigerator, sofa sets, dining table and beds – but all items are upside down.

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A single woman pushes a bachelor riding in a shopping trolley at the “adopt-a-guy” (adopte-un-mec) store in Paris. The boutique, with a short-term lease promised a high-end shopping experience for women searching for Mr Right.

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A woman poses with a locust on her tongue at a discovery lunch in Brussels. Organizers of the event, which included cookery classes, want to draw attention to insects as a source of nutrition.

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Kazuhiro Watanabe, a fashion designer from Tokyo, shows off his 3-foot-8-point-6-inch hairdo in New York City’s Washington Square Park . To make his hair stand upright he says it takes stylists two hours, one can of gel and three cans of hairspray.

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A man walks barefoot on burning embers during a traditional Firewalking ceremony in hope of avoiding disasters in Zhejiang province of China.

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Gisela Marulanda, 23, who claims to be possessed by spirits, participates in an exorcism ritual performed by Hermes Cifuentes (not pictured) in La Cumbre, Colombia.

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Bikini-clad women are seen on a mock tank decorated with lights, during a show at the newly opened “Robot Restaurant” in Kabukicho, one of Tokyo’s best known red light districts.

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A competitor slips off the “gostra”, a pole covered in grease, during the religious feast of St Julian, patron of the town of St Julian’s, outside Valletta. In the traditional “gostra”, a game stretching back to the Middle Ages, young men and women have to make their way to the top and try to uproot one of the flags to win prizes.

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A participant in the “Concurso de Feos” (Ugly Competition), performs during the Aste Nagusia (Great Week) fiestas in Bilbao, Spain.

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A man walks pass a 22-feet-tall and 25-feet-wide chair at a shopping mall in Shanghai, China.

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Hallie McConlogue stays cool partially submerged in a fishbowl helmet during the Burning Man 2012 “Fertility 2.0″ arts and music festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada.

From left: Savita, 23, Monisha, 18, and Savitri pose for a photograph at their residence in Sangli, India. In one of the rarest conditions in the world, affecting just one in a billion people, three sisters have all been blighted by a condition known as Werewolf Syndrome – where they are covered from head to foot in thick hair.

Masafumi Nagasaki, a 76-year-old naked hermit, sits at table made from polystyrene box as he eats a food on Sotobanari island, off western coast of Iriomote island, Okinawa prefecture. Dangerous currents swirl around Sotobanari island, which has not a drop of natural water, and local fisherman rarely land there. But Nagasaki has made this kidney-shaped island in Japan’s tropical Okinawa prefecture his retirement home, with an unusual dress code: nothing at all.

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Teresa Widener poses for a photograph while preparing to eat rocks at her trailer home in Bedford, Virginia. The mother of two has revealed how love is helping her beat an astonishing disorder that has seen her eat over 3,000 lbs of stones in her lifetime.

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A Chinese girl poses for fun with a 3D painting at an art exhibition in Jiaxing city in east China’s Zhejiang province.

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A patient undergoes cupping treatment at a weight loss center in Changchun, China. Cupping treatment involves creating negative pressures within glass containers, which are then inverted and placed onto the back of a patient. Doctors at the clinic believe the technique is able to cleanse the body of impurities and improve blood circulation as well as the flow of “qi”, known as the body’s “vital energy” in Mandarin.

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Pruthviraj Deelip Patil, 11, wearing an “I heart NY” T-shirt, plays with his school friends. Pruthviraj was born with the rare genetic condition Hypertrichosis, also known as Werewolf Syndrome, leaving him with hair all over his body. Believed to be one of a mere 50 people in the world with the condition, Pruthviraj and his family have tried numerous treatments, but have had little luck.

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A blind Persian cat “Million Dollar Baby” is presented at the “Furry Friends on the Runway” canine fashion event at the Ritz Plaza Park in New York. The event showcased designer and home-made fashion for dogs and featured a “dog-walk” as opposed to a catwalk seen at regular fashion shows.

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A dog sits on a buffalo who is cooling off in the Ravi River in Lahore, Pakistan.

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Pruthviraj Deelip Patil holding a picture of himself on the front page of The Post.

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Gary Stretch, who has the world’s stretchiest skin, practices his routine in “The Royal Family of Strange People” in London, England.

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Family members hold up a mummy before giving it new clothes in a ritual in the Toraja district of Indonesia’s South Sulawesi Province. The ritual, called Ma’nene, involves changing the clothes of mummified ancestors every three years to honor love for the deceased.